The lawyer representing the parents of the Georgia Tech student who was fatally shot by campus police this weekend contradicted official reports in a news conference on Monday, saying the 21-year-old didn't have a knife in their hand but a small multipurpose tool.

The attorney, L. Chris Stewart, showed an image of the tool Scout Schultz was holding, saying the knife portion was still folded into the closed position during their interaction with officers. "This is what Scout had — the knife wasn't even open," Stewart said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said on Sunday that Schultz — the campus Pride Alliance's president — was allegedly carrying a knife outside a dormitory and "would not comply with the officers’ commands."

"Schultz continued to advance on the officers with the knife," the statement read. An officer then fired, according to the statement released Sunday. Schultz died at Grady Memorial Hospital.

On Monday, the GBI released a new statement to BuzzFeed News clarifying that "one multi-purpose tool that contained a knife" and "no firearms" were recovered from the scene

GBI also revealed Monday that it was Schultz who called the Georgia Tech Police "alerting them of a suspicious person on campus" who may have had a gun.

"In the call, Shultz describes the person as a white male, with long blonde hair, white t-shirt & blue jeans who is possibly intoxicated, holding a knife and possibly armed with a gun on his hip," the agency said.

Schultz's parents directly addressed the officer at the news conference. “Why did you have to shoot?" the student's father, Bill Schultz, asked.

"That’s the question," he continued. "I mean — that’s the only question that matters right now. Why did you kill my son?” the father added.

The attorney said that the family plans to file a civil suit and that there were "two failures" — the officer who decided to open fire, and Georgia Tech's not providing its officers with tasers. He called the latter "insane."

Stewart described the shooting as "senseless."

“What was Scout doing that day?" the attorney said. "Standing there. Disoriented. Having a mental breakdown, and was shot from 20 feet away."

Stewart said that the officers who did not use lethal force during the incident responded properly. "But one officer did not do their job," Stewart said. “One officer, though there were five out there, decided to shoot Scout in the heart."

Stewart said that the student "battled with depression in the past."

Scout was a fourth-year student at the university. Scout's mother, Lynne Schultz, spoke about her child's "great grades," and described them as "caring."

"Scout stood up for what they believed in," she said. (Scout used "they/them" pronouns.) "This is a really big loss for a lot of people."

Scout's father called Scout the "greatest kid."

"I just cried reading all the posts on his Facebook page, of all the people on campus who loved, and respected, and adored Scout," the student's father said.

Two apparent videos emerged of the incident. One shows Schultz slowly walking toward the officers before they were shot. (Warning: The following videos may be disturbing to some people.)